Tucson Rain Water Harvesting

The Tucson Monsoon season is just 10 days away (now that we have an official start date of June 15, 2008). This yearly period in nature brings about a renewed interest in Rain Water Harvesting.


Winter Weather Returns to Tucson this weekend

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Winter weather? Well winter weather here means anything between 50 and 80 degrees. But, it is unseasonably cold this weekend. We woke up in the low 50’s and it is only 66 degrees outside as I [...]


Arizona Daily Star Throwing Thorns at Real Estate Agents

Open the paper this morning to more of the typical kind of reporting we see every week. Seems there have been some sales price declines in the first quarter of this year. Tucson down 2.9 percent, meaning we have lost some of the nearly 80% run up in valuation since 2004. This [...]


Tucson When A Bad Omen Isn’t So Bad

I don’t usually write about foreclosures or rates of foreclosure. But I want to address the article that topped the business section of this mornings “Arizona Daily Star”.


The Other Door of the Mortgage Barn About to Close

Kenneth Harney in his weekly column carried in the Arizona Daily Star business section on Saturdays brought to light for many of us the upcoming changes in the coverage offered or I should say not even offered in certain circumstances. Here is a quote from the article.


Tucson AZ Starnet Welcome Registration Required

WWW.AZSTARNET.COM not so Welcoming
The home page title is “Welcome to StarNet” we hope you don’t just want to read. This morning I found it wasn’t quite as inviting as it always has been. I don’t know exactly when this started but it must have been sometime in the past couple of days. Now [...]